doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com FUBAR spotted in Winter Issue 2011

I know- and I asked Clothilde, who is a French teacher in an area HS- for that so I could "FUBAR it" just to see if anyone caught it- and two of you did- which explains why I am NOT a professional writer, nor editor- just an old History buff with sharp eyes. I had to pick a language I do not converse it- so English, German and Spanish were out-

I went with French as the great article about Hemingway in Paris in 1944-45 with his "Irregulars was the main reason I bought this rather pricy magazine- my first. I loved the LC Smith article, better than anything in Houchins' great book, IMO--

OK, as I mentioned "Don Ernesto" and his solid work ethic (until the booze and the broads took over)and his newspaperman's insistence on "getting it right" let's go to Carlos Baker's book "Ernest Hemingway- selected letters 1917-1961" page 145- the letter from Ernest to Ernest Walsh and Ethel Moorhead from Schruns, Austria Jan 1925--:"One of the most important things I believe is to get the very best work that people are doing"-- and then "And watch your proofreading and typography- there is nothing to spoil a persons appreciation of good stuff like typo errors. Its like sour notes in a piano concert."" I rest my case--

Whose point are you making? Your's or mine?

There was a point in there?

Actually: n'est-ce pas.

Fox, I see two glaring punctuation errors in your last Hemingway quote. I'm sure they're not his!

Runs, here are a few FUBARS of your own, "I had thought all the Nitro proofed steel barrels on pre-1913 Smiths" Your statement should have been Nitro Steel, as Nitro Proofed barrels (NP) didn't start until the early 1920's. The early guns were proofed at Hunter Arms but not stamped on barrels.

Also your statement "And when I refer to insider, or perhaps- insidious, trading might be better, I am referring to one of their BOD Honchos- Herr Vogel- who scammed the rest of the herd out of a 'shot" at 13 premium "NIB" high grade Smith guns made under the Marlin era in the late 1940's- stashed away and didn't come to light until a few years ago, after the Remington take-over and ownership of Marlin= Old Herr Vogel got the first and ONLY crack at this superb collection- the rest of the membership, even their fat-boy "Alms-man from Alabama" never knew until they were safely stashed away in his home in,"

Your resource for this is wrong, it was 15 guns, one couldn't be sold because of not being proofed, so 14 guns and they were not all "high grade".

Say, that "stashed away" bit makes me think of the late John Mann's April '03 tale of the last caretaker of Hunter Arms and the Elsies in the oats bin. What says our polymath and chief dumpster diver in the historico-referential goo? Only so much entertainment in typos after all.

jack